Casts, Quotes, Parodies: the Italian Reception of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's Work

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Abstract

This article aims to provide a preliminary picture on the complex phenomenon of the reception of the work of F. M Dostoevsky in Italy starting from the diffusion of the first translations of the novels. Dostoevsky was not well received by the first critics and writers who criticized its style, excess morbidity and “drama”. He was considered a writer excessively related to the disturbances of the human soul, and in this regard the label of “psychologism”was used. Beyond this apparent negativity, the writers who were influenced and who admitted openly to consider Dostoevsky's not only a teacher of writing, but also an inexhaustible source of ideas and suggestions to delineate the characters of the novels were so many of them and go through all the panorama of the literature of the last twenty years of the Nineteenth century and throughout the Twentieth century: D'annunzio, Oriani, Moravia, Gadda, Tozzi, Sciascia, Landolfi, Piovene. Each of them declines a particular aspect of Dostoevskij’s poetics, using quotes, casts, parodies or real rewrites of the Dostoevsky text.

General Information

Keywords: F.M. Dostoevskij, Italian reception of Russian literature, Literary criticism

Journal rubric: World Literature. Textology

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2021080203

Received: 01.05.2021

Accepted:

For citation: Nocera A. Casts, Quotes, Parodies: the Italian Reception of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's Work [Elektronnyi resurs]. Âzyk i tekst = Language and Text, 2021. Vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 28–40. DOI: 10.17759/langt.2021080203.

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Information About the Authors

Antonina Nocera, PhD in Culture, member of the Association "Philosophy in Motion", curator of the project "L'altro Dostoevsky", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the writer, University of Palermo, Italy, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2517-2701, e-mail: nocera.anto@gmail.com

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